BURO 2010 - 1st International Workshop on Business Models, Business Rules and Ontologies (BuRO 2010)

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Category BURO 2010

Deadline: August 06, 2010 | Date: September 22, 2010-September 24, 2010

Venue/Country: Bressanone, Italy

Updated: 2010-07-28 15:43:37 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

(workshop co-located with the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR2010, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy, September 22-24, 2010 )

Description of the Workshop

It is a challenge in a business to enable the right people to interact in their own way with the right part of their business application. We distinguish between three views on the business organization: (1) the view of the business analyst using a formal and validated business model; (2) the view of the knowledge engineer via ontologies and rules, and (3) the view of the IT department via an operationalization in applications. We can glue these views together via an end-to-end point solution: (1) conceptualization and where possible acquisition of business models and their transformation into ontologies and rules; (2) their management and maintenance, and (3) the transparent operationalization in IT applications.

The vision at the heart of the Semantic Web is of high relevance in a business setting as well. The proposed workshop addresses the different issues that arise in a business that wishes to have a transparent and where possible and useful a semi-automatic transfer of knowledge present in business documents expressing, e.g., policies, to an IT operationalization. Moreover, the workshop tackles these issues from an holistic perspective, raising awareness for the overall picture, instead of focusing on stand-alone issues. E.g., although OWL is well-investigated it is unclear how business knowledge expressed in SBVR can be mapped to it. Another example is the W3C's RIF effort: although based on well-investigated rule paradigms, it is less well-connected to upper business layers: how to go from a formal business model to RIF rules and how to interact with derived ontologies?

During the ONTORULE project which shares a similar vision on a business, it has been recognized that this holistic view goes beyond the results attainable within the project and that much more discussion and exchange is needed. As such the workshop wants to create awareness with researchers in stand-alone fields like ontology acquisition, business modeling, integration of ontologies and rules, implementations of rule/ontology engines, that there is a bigger picture that can and should be used to extract requirements on the one hand and to provide output that is fine-tuned for other fields on the other hand.

Topics of interest

Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to):

the acquisition of ontologies and rules from unstructured text via Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques

the development of a complete, formal and validated business model, taking all possible inputs into account (people and documents, structured and unstructured, some of which as output from an NLP phase), using the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)

transformation from structured business representations, from SBVR, to RDF/OWL and/or rules

the management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rules, e.g., consistency maintenance and the integration of rules and ontologies (semantics, algorithms)

implementations of such management systems

use cases and field reports

Submissions

We invite full papers up to 14 pages length. The workshop content will be made available in separate workshop proceedings. Please use the Springer LNCS format for the papers. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For paper submission we use the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=buro2010

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Aug 6, 2010

Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2010

Camera-ready paper submission: September 3, 2010

Workshop: September 21, 2010

Organizing Committee

Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna, Austria

Adil El Ghali, IBM, France

Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain

Stijn Heymans, TU Vienna, Austria

François Lévy, Université Paris 13, France

Program Committee

Patrick Albert, IBM, France

Darko Anicic, FZI, Germany

Christopher Brewster, Aston University, UK

Jordi Cabot, Université de Nantes, France

Jean Charlet, INSERM, France

Michael Erdmann, ontoprise GmbH, Germany

Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford, UK

Stephan Grimm, FZI, Germany

Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA

Giovambattista Ianni, Universita della Calabria, Italy

Thomas Krennwallner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Markus Kroetzsch, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Yue Ma, LIPN, Univ. Paris 13, France

Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK

Adeline Nazarenko, Univ. Paris 13, France

Sjir Nijssen, PNA University

Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany

Maria Theresa Pazienza, Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy

Luis Polo, Fundacion CTIC, Spain

Edna Ruckhaus, Universidad Simon Bolivar Caracas, Venezuela

Sebastian Rudolph, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Jos de Bruijn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Venue

The workshop is colocated with the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2010) and will take place at Bressanone/Brixen (Italy) on September 21, 2010. There are some hotels around Brixen at reduced rates for attendees of BuRO 2010. Details about registration will coming soon.